--- title: When someone at the door is selling things, you politely say no and… — Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom · tree and pragmatics description: When someone at the door is selling things, you politely say no and close the door, or get a grown-up. Who acts: someone, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (someone, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom.lesson:12 # text = When someone at the door is selling things, you politely say no and close the door, or get a grown-up. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 7 mark _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 nsubj _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 selling sell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 8 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 politely politely ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 12 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Neg 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 close close VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:parataxis 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det 22 grown grow NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sell** | present · progressive | someone | things | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | | | | | politely *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **close** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the door | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | | 4 | **get** | infinitive | you *not said here* | grown | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent grow=Beneficiary up=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom.lesson:12`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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